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Collection Reference Number GLC09079
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1910s 
Title Dixie Editors Fear Dry Force Bill Will Lead to Negro Controls in South; Destroys States Rights
Date ca. 1918
Document Type Broadside
Content Description Prohibition broadside railing against the prospect of prohibition, because it opens the door to northern infringement upon southern whites. "[The fourteenth] amendment gives to Congress the power to force upon the South a vote for the negro - and a revival of the dangerous color question. If enforced, it would give South Carolina a NEGRO government from top to bottom..."
Subjects African American History  Temperance and Prohibition  Propaganda  Government and Civics  US Constitutional Amendment  Election  Journalism  Progressive Era  
Theme African Americans; Government & Politics
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945